Coding

github

2011-07-19T23:21:00.002+09:00

We're now maintaining a repository for "SpecialKEval" over on github.

Jogguru on Amazon

2011-04-28T18:07:00.003+09:00

Jogguru is now available for Android via the Amazon app store, check it out!

ジョッグル

2011-02-14T09:16:00.008+09:00

ワードハントでジョッグルを楽しめる!周辺の文字を最低3文字繋げればポイントをゲットできる!検索ボトンを押すと、すぐに英訳登場。楽しいゲームだけではなく、英語学習のツールとしても考えられる!得点をお友達やグループメンバー等とフェイスブック、メール、ゲームセンターでシェアし、簡単に比べることができる!広告は表示されません。グラフィックス: Ray.

Jogguru iOS

2011-02-14T09:05:00.012+09:00

Introducing Jogguru, the fast and fun way for learners of all levels to boost their knowledge of Japanese! Now available on the iTunes Store for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad on iOS3.0 and up. ✓ Hunt for hiragana words by connecting up adjacent letters ✓ Score points for words with 3 or more letters and complete achievements! ✓ Instant kanjis and English translations ✓ Features all JLPT N1-N5

A Texas Hold'em 7-card evaluator: Part II.

2011-02-09T11:15:00.059+09:00

(Part I is here.) There are further significant performance gains to be had by exploiting thoughtful choices for the suit values. We assign the integer values 0, 1, 8 and 57 for spade, heart, diamond and club respectively. Any sum of exactly seven values taken from {0, 1, 8, 57} is unique among all such sums. We add up the suits of a 7-card hand to produce a "flush check" key and use this to

Poker Ace 1.2

2010-12-03T19:38:00.004+09:00

An upgrade to Poker Ace 1.1. This release is offered in Simplified Chinese in addition to English, French, German, Japanese and Thai. Tweet

Open problem

2010-11-22T10:19:00.019+09:00

If you have the time to waste, we invite solutions to the following problem: "Can our algorithm for evaluating 7-card hands be substantially accelerated without increasing the total memory footprint, and/or can the total memory footprint be substantially reduced without slowing the algorithm at all? Or is there another evaluator which is substantially faster with no greater memory footprint or

Poker Ace 1.1

2010-11-21T19:03:00.020+09:00

An upgrade to Poker Ace 1.0. Thank you to all who tested our code and beta versions, contacted us with encouragement and feedback, and provided translations. We had over 4000 unique page views and over 400 unique downloads prior to release. This release features a further 30% performance gain and a smaller binary download. Tweet

Poker Ace 1.0

2010-09-22T11:04:00.049+09:00

An iPhone/iPod Touch app using a commercial-grade evolution of the first hand evaluator described earlier on this blog and available on Google Projects is now available on the iTunes Store. It's called "Poker Ace". Thank you to all who tested our code and beta versions and contacted us with encouragement and feedback. We reserve special thanks for Arjaree, Halipa, Marion, Martin and

A Texas Hold'em 7-card evaluator: Part I

2010-04-28T17:55:00.385+09:00

(This post is a continued in Part II here.) The idea for a new 7-card evaluator was inspired by Cactus Kev's blog, describing his 5-card evaluator. Setting flushes to one side for the time being, his idea is to assign thirteen pairwise distinct prime numbers as the face values of each card. He chooses the first thirteen prime numbers, from 2 to 41 inclusive. Every integer greater than or equal